Manuel J. Castillo Garzón (Granada, 1955), Doctor of Medicine (1980), specialised in Clinical Biopathology – Endocrinology, Professor of Medical Physiology in Granada Faculty of Medicine (1996-). Director of the Research Group: Functional Evaluation and the Exercise Physiology – Health Science and Technology 262 of Junta de Andalucia, Medical Ex-director of Sotogrande Health Experience (a practical application of his researching activity). Author of more than 150 national and international scientific publications (most of them in hit magazines) and more than 250 communications and congresses. Ha has given several conferences in and outside Spain. He is keeping a steady collaboration line with Health and research centres in different countries taking part and/or leading several national and international projects.

Medical-scientific field of interest: study of the endocrine-metabolic aspects related to the physical activity and its effect in the ageing prevention. Member of the scientific committee of several scientific societies and among them the Medical Anti-ageing European Society. Among other awards, his group has received Sport Research Award that is given by Junta de Andalucía.

Jonatan Ruiz Ruiz is a Ramón y Cajal Research Fellow at the School of Physical Activity and Sport Sciences at the University of Granada (Spain). Jonatan has an MSc in Exercise Science from the University of Granada (Spain). He also has a PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Granada (Spain), and a second PhD in Medical Sciences from the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). His research combines physical activity epidemiology with clinical physiology to study the interaction between physical activity, fitness, features of the metabolic disorders, and genetics.

Francisco, B. Ortega Porcel. Doctor of Physical Activities and Sports Sciences at Granada University. He was awarded the University title of Doctor of Exercise Phyiology by Granada University (Spain) and a second PhD in Medical Sciences at the Karolinska Institutet (Sweden). Nowadays he is a post-PhD scholar at the Unit of Preventive Nutrition of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden).

Field of interest: Physical Activity and exercise, physical condition, obesity, distribution of the abdominal fat and cardiovascular risk factors, especially in children and teenagers.

Bachelor of Physical Activity Sciences and Sport at Granada University. Master’s degree in Human Nutrition (Granada University). Line of work of the Thesis he is developing: “physical condition, physical activity and socio-metabolic aspects of the obesity in teenagers”. PhD scholar from the Education Ministry: National Training Program university teachers (FPU, Ref.: AP-2005-....) at the Madrid Polytechnic under the guidance of the teacher Marcela González-Gross. National trainer of Triatlón and level 1 technician in Anthropometrics ISAK. Master’s degree in Human Nutrition (Granada University).

Field of interest: Hydration and exercise, Physical Activity and exercise, physical condition and obesity in teenagers.

PhD, Physical Activity and Sport Sciences, University of Granada. Postdoctoral Fellow, under the proyect "Granada Research of Excellence Initiative on BioHealth" (GREIB). Currently at University of South Carolina, Arnold School of Public Health, Department of Exercise Science.

Field of interest: physical fitness, body composition and cardiovascular health, with special interest in muscular strength.

Nowadays She is a Post-doctoral research fellow in the University of South Carolina, Public Health Research Center (USA). She is also a collaborator research fellow in the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation in Northern Michigan University (USA).

Scientific researcher in Public Health, mainly in Physical activity and Fitness in children and adolescents. Moreover, she is specialist in exercise physiology, mainly in rock climbing.

Doctor of Chemistry. Master’s degree in Nutrition at Complutense University of Madrid. Nowadays she Works as a Professor at the Physical Activity Sciences and Sport Faculty of the University of Madrid. She is member of the research group EFFECTS 262 (Functional Evaluation Physiology of the Exercise) from Granada University and Guest Teacher of the Nutrition Institute of Bonn University (Germany). Moreover, she collaborates on these and other centres both national and international ones on teaching and research projects.

Research field: Valuation of the nutritional condition in healthy subjects with different levels of physical activity. Recommended nutrients and non-nutrients consumption.